Liverpool FC season review 1988/89

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  • Опубликовано: 13 дек 2024

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  • @GreigStott
    @GreigStott 3 года назад +20

    Liverpool showed so much character and mental strength to carry on after Hillsborough, this was a great team

  • @alanwalsh8371
    @alanwalsh8371 4 года назад +15

    I remember all these matches like yesterday 😭

    • @waynehigham6504
      @waynehigham6504 4 года назад +2

      I do myself mate

    • @skiptoncoxy
      @skiptoncoxy 3 года назад

      Literally remember every goal and every line of commentary!!

  • @Themwerethedayss
    @Themwerethedayss 4 года назад +2

    9:50 liverpool v spurs 17th Sept 1988. My first game standing on the kop aged 14. Remember it like it was yesterday. Best times best days!! Thanks for posting Dave.

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  4 года назад +1

      I've got a 25 minute video of highlights from that game if you want to see more: ruclips.net/video/SmVFMfpz1Is/видео.html

    • @Themwerethedayss
      @Themwerethedayss 4 года назад

      @@DaveWallerLFC Brilliant thanks I'll have a look at that!

  • @jaysmith6327
    @jaysmith6327 9 месяцев назад +1

    This was my 1st season as a kid...also the reason liverpool fc will always be my club...❤

  • @anthonymooney8636
    @anthonymooney8636 11 месяцев назад +1

    The mental strength the players must’ve had to go through everything and still come so close to doing the double unbelievable you imagine in this day and age they would be called absolute Superman which they were.

  • @simondelaney6483
    @simondelaney6483 5 лет назад +9

    I remember buying this on VHS for half price. What a fightback to try and win the title. So many games near the end especially that last week after winning the cup in extra time. Breaks my heart still watching that last game. I remembering going to bed afterwards and not getting up the next day. My Ma was bringing me up soup the next day trying to get me out of my pit.

    • @Eric-qu3mx
      @Eric-qu3mx 3 года назад

      The defense is definity an argument

    • @edmundpower1250
      @edmundpower1250 Год назад

      I wonder was there a victory parade around the city after the cup win v everton?

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  Год назад

      There was a parade the day after the cup final.

  • @jasondurent8805
    @jasondurent8805 2 года назад +2

    It just takes me back to a time when all I had to worry about was my team winning how times were about to change has you get older but not my love for Liverpool it's never change

  • @PeterAnderson-z4y
    @PeterAnderson-z4y 8 месяцев назад +1

    This was still a great team as most of squad was still intact except Mark Lawrenson and Craig Johnston retiring, and lan Rush returning. Only thing was a few injures club suffered.

  • @dface6447
    @dface6447 Год назад

    I'm a 51 year old LFC fan from Sheffield,i saw my 1st ever game at a field when I was 7 n that was it YNWA,I was at the away match at Hillsborough 😊 remember it well,then of course the ⚽ didn't matter later,it was an unbelievable performance from us to do what we did that season 😢 YNWA ❤

  • @mrkipling2201
    @mrkipling2201 5 лет назад +6

    So unlucky not to win the league again. I have to say that hillsborough played a part in that.

  • @MatteoSimeone22
    @MatteoSimeone22 4 года назад +3

    Oh my word....if we had played a bit more offensive in that last match we could
    have won the game. Arsenal were a bit lucky and took their chances while we looked too stodgy
    given that we knew mentally that we didn't need to win the game.
    it would have been the greatest double ever. What a rollercoaster season.

    • @shane-irish
      @shane-irish 2 года назад +4

      If my sister was my brother

    • @anthonymooney8636
      @anthonymooney8636 11 месяцев назад +1

      They played three games in six days they were absolutely shattered. Remember they played extra time at Wembley as well as Kenny said in the video it was an achievement to get that close.

  • @of_doom_and_steel477
    @of_doom_and_steel477 Год назад +1

    The remarkable thing about this season is that, in February, Arsenal were at least as far ahead of Liverpool as Newcastle were (of ManU) in 1995-96. Whereas Newcastle had a 12pt lead at one point in 95-96, and still 9pts with a game in hand in mid-Feb, Arsenal were 15pts ahead of Liverpool in mid-Feb of 88-89 (albeit having played a game more), and then Liverpool won 13 of the next 14 league games and were in a commanding position for the final game of the season, only to throw it away ...
    EDIT: in fact, before drawing with QPR on 18th Feb 89, Arsenal were 14 pts ahead of Liverpool, having played the same number of games. So they had a better lead over Liverpool in 88-89 than Newcastle had over Man U at any point in 95-96.

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  Год назад +1

      It's not directly comparable is it? Liverpool weren't second when Arsenal had that lead so they weren't that far clear. And Arsenal did (just) end up winning the league, unlike Newcastle.

    • @of_doom_and_steel477
      @of_doom_and_steel477 Год назад

      @@DaveWallerLFC No. But the abiding general memory of 88-89 is of Arsenal just pipping Liverpool to the title, which obscures the fact that, prior to that final game, Liverpool had already pulled off a remarkable overhaul of Arsenal that was more impressive than ManU's overhaul of Newcastle in 95-96 ... except they then stumbled at the very last hurdle, when everything was in their favour, having already done all the hard work to put themselves in that position. I did already know that they'd been quite some way behind Arsenal during the third quarter of the season, but I hadn't remembered by just how much. That makes it even more of a shame that they couldn't get over the line, because it would have completed not only a second double but also the best ever points comeback to win a title.

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  Год назад

      Would it have been better than 81/82 in terms of a turnaround? I don't know the points gap but to go from 12th on Boxing Day to win it was quite something.

    • @of_doom_and_steel477
      @of_doom_and_steel477 Год назад

      @@DaveWallerLFC I don't have a chronological list of all the games played by all the top teams in 81-82, but I do have such a list of all Liverpool's and ManU's results, and the wikipedia entry for the season says that unfancied minnows Man City were top at the end of December (having just won 3-1 at Anfield), and that there were only 2 pts separating the top 5 teams. ManU were among the top 5 teams, and their record at that point was 18 games played, 9 won, 5 drawn and 4 lost, for 32 pts. That means that ManC could have had no more than 34pts. Liverpool's record at the same point was 17 played, 6 won, 6 drawn and 5 lost, for 24 pts. So they were 10 pts off the top at most, and probably had at least one game in hand on the leaders. It's likely that Ipswich, who were closer to the leaders, had more games in hand and were in the overall strongest position at that point, but there's no list of their results. From the new year onwards, Liverpool had much better results, with just the occasional loss, and so they would never have been more than those ~10 pts off the top. In the 81 part of the season, Liverpool had lost 2-0 away to Ipswich, 2-1 at home to ManU, 3-1 at home to ManC and 1-0 at home to Southampton (who led the table as late as the end of March, before a poor finish that saw them drop to 7th, 21 pts off the top). In the 82 part of the season, Liverpool beat Ipswich 4-0, ManU 1-0, ManC 5-0 and Southampton 3-2, and ended up as champions with 87 pts and a +48 goal-difference. Ipswich were 4 pts behind and ManU 9 pts behind, and ManC were 29 pts behind in 10th place with a -1 goal-difference.

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  Год назад

      I have now found a table on the LFC history site. We were 6 points off the top with 2 games in hand! So the turnaround is possibly overstated, although Ipswich must have done well to take it to the last week of the season, given the run Liverpool had.

  • @shamarwalker9243
    @shamarwalker9243 4 года назад +2

    How good was Peter Beasley???

  • @shane-irish
    @shane-irish 2 года назад

    Just listening to amy lawence book on this as a liverpool fan i cried that night

  • @anthonymooney8636
    @anthonymooney8636 11 месяцев назад

    We had so many injuries at the start of the season, and unfortunately the squad was becoming a little paper thin. Mike Hooper was an awful goalkeeper, who made a lot of mistakes terrible on crosses, and for a big man was very weak. He falls over half the time when someone nudges him.

  • @MrRob2904
    @MrRob2904 7 месяцев назад

    Rushy was one of the best british strikers of all time

  • @mrkipling2201
    @mrkipling2201 5 лет назад +2

    Still savour our win on New Year’s Day Dave!!! It was small victories for us at United back then!!!

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  5 лет назад +1

      Didn't it come out on a video calling it "game of the season" even though nothing happened for 70 mins?! (I'm still bitter!)

    • @mrkipling2201
      @mrkipling2201 5 лет назад

      Dave Waller I think it did. Should have been called the best 20 minutes of the season!!! And all we had back then was victories over Liverpool!! And that was the highlight of 88/89 for us, one of the most boring seasons I’ve had watching United. I think the low point was the game against Wimbledon at Old Trafford. A streaky 1-0 win in front of 23,000. And I was one of those crazy fans who went to that game!!

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  5 лет назад +2

      Sounds like us under Souness.

    • @mrkipling2201
      @mrkipling2201 5 лет назад +2

      Dave Waller you were spoiled under your previous 3 managers especially paisley and Dalglish that there was always going to be a downturn. Same thing with us when fergie left. He spoiled us!!

  • @thanatdokduang2813
    @thanatdokduang2813 3 года назад

    My first season i’ve to know the red! When i was 9 years old.

  • @StFidjnr
    @StFidjnr 5 лет назад +1

    Where's the race for the championship 1988/89 video

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  5 лет назад +1

      I've never owned that video.

    • @mrkipling2201
      @mrkipling2201 5 лет назад +2

      StFidjnr it’s on RUclips. I had it when it came out and watched it so much I wore it out!!! Great video.

  • @zzzaaa0990
    @zzzaaa0990 10 месяцев назад

    Different class,Liverpool were just majestic. John Barnes was awesome against man u/fa,should have had 2 penalties not one.14>1 Amen.

    • @PeterAnderson-z4y
      @PeterAnderson-z4y 8 месяцев назад

      Would have surely given AC Milan a game if was still in European Cup.

    • @damirblazevic4823
      @damirblazevic4823 2 месяца назад

      ​@@PeterAnderson-z4y 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @swkenny
    @swkenny 4 года назад +2

    Don't care what anyone says Liverpool were by far the best team during those days, Arsenals "football" if you can call it that was complete & utter shit on a stick & that win that night was as jammy as it could ever get.
    What Liverpool did wrong that night was to try & close out the match too soon in a conservative manner which was not the Liverpool way at all with that particular team otherwise there's no way in hell they would have won that game let alone by 2 clear goals, no way.
    Maybe the horror of Hillsborough finally caught up with everyone that night because we were not ourselves, especially in the second half, as we allowed Arsenal to dictate the game which would normally never happen in a million years at Anfield & they were nowhere near as good with the ball as we were at that time, not even close.
    Their fans these days are a bunch of deluded fuckwits so watching them steal this title that night annoys me more now than it did back then.

    • @MatteoSimeone22
      @MatteoSimeone22 3 года назад +2

      I agree. We should have bossed the game.
      We became too defensive in the 2nd half.
      Maybe it was just not meant to be in the end.
      Liverpool were the better footballing team, but the long-ball Gunners won it.

    • @swkenny
      @swkenny 3 года назад +1

      @@MatteoSimeone22 Yep totally agree!

    • @anthonymooney8636
      @anthonymooney8636 3 года назад +2

      Alan Hansen always said if the game was played on the Saturday like it should’ve been and we had to win the game we would’ve won it because the game was on a Friday night three games in basically six days was ridiculous

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  3 года назад +4

      The original rescheduled fixtures had the game down for the Thursday night, with the West Ham game on the Monday that week, so it would have been 3 games in 5 days. Moving them back a day was the league's compromise, but still ridiculous as you say.

    • @shane-irish
      @shane-irish 2 года назад +2

      Yes but credit to arsenal for winning it

  • @shane-irish
    @shane-irish 2 года назад

    1:52:11

  • @bazza-e9t
    @bazza-e9t 4 месяца назад

    Great team, dreadfully dodgy keeper.

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  4 месяца назад

      Grobbelaar or Hooper?

    • @bazza-e9t
      @bazza-e9t 4 месяца назад

      Grobelaar, constant accident waiting to happen. Amazing he played in goal for you for so long.

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  4 месяца назад

      He lost one match that season.

    • @bazza-e9t
      @bazza-e9t 4 месяца назад

      ​@@DaveWallerLFC
      Still dodgy.

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  4 месяца назад

      Can't argue with that logic!

  • @richybatty234
    @richybatty234 9 месяцев назад

    Lucky Arsenal as usual ...

    • @JohnJohn-zn8ib
      @JohnJohn-zn8ib 7 месяцев назад

      Lucky Arsenal as usual?, you sound like an idiot, Liverpool supporters and players thought Smith touched the ball, they must need glasses, Liverpool were lucky they got that far. Man United are lucky as usual too with the falling over of players for penalties, seems like lucky isn't common with you, Liverpool have been lucky many times and Man United, stop talking bullshit.

  • @shaunswan157
    @shaunswan157 Год назад +1

    Mike hooper lost us the league that season worst goalkeeper Liverpool ever had

    • @DaveWallerLFC
      @DaveWallerLFC  Год назад +3

      That seems harsh and unnecessary. Hooper wasn't a world-beater but he was mostly solid. He also kept his place for a while that season after Grobbelaar recovered from meningitis, so he can't have been doing that badly. We've had far worse keepers since then.

    • @anthonymooney8636
      @anthonymooney8636 11 месяцев назад

      Couldn’t agree more, he got caught out on so many free, kicks and crosses. He was awful for a big man he was very weak.